Books & Authors (Arts & Humanities) - May 2007

It’s Saturday, December 1, 1979. Valencia orange sunlight inflates the room where my father is kicking ten colors of crap out of me. I’m breathing like a goddamn Olympic sprinter as burgundy black bubbles drip from my mouth and my nose and percolate the sun-splashed mess beneath my hands and my knees. In my mind's eye I can see the elixir up ahead now. It’s like someone has ripped a goddamn Caspian of a hole in the wall for me to climb through. If only I’d seen it before. If only I can get there.

I’m that way sometimes when someone’s beating me daffy—my mind travels; moseys off into the goddamn wilderness, or swims out across the ocean to Australia, or some place far away like that—where nobody knows me. I’m getting pretty damned good at it too. Sometimes I drift so far from the bastard who’s bashing me, he thinks I’ve lost my marbles or had a stroke or something. Like now, he’s kicking and yelling and having a hernia and all, and I’m telling you this stuff all the while. ...

2007-05-11 22:05:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

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children's book characters???

Does anyone get these characters from kids books by these descriptions?

1)a blue tractor with big long eyes on its front window

2)an older boy standing up wearing blue shorts, holding a blue elephant toy and his little sister sittin on the floor next to him with ginger curly hair and wearing a green and white dress

3)a girl with black hair and a dark skirt holding what looks like a giant white rabbit

4)a teddy bear lying on its back on a blue-ish bed with its feet in the air

5)some little green men (aliens???) in a boat made of a colander and an upside down pipe with green sails

6) a boy/man banging a drum, wearing a hat, holding a poster and with a dog running alongside him

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

2007-05-11 21:45:27 · 3 answers · asked by selina 2

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What is the Exposition of Fahrenheit 451?

Just cant really figure it out.

2007-05-11 20:28:40 · 2 answers · asked by dwijesh91 1

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Good book recommendations?

I sorta need one from each of the genres mentioned:

MYSTERY (something along the lines of The Da Vinci Code, or Angels and Demons both by Dan Brown.)

HUMOUR (Dave Barry's books are a good example of the types of books I like. Anything with Sarcasm will do. Oh, and "A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore is also fab.)

TEEN ("Elsewhere" by Gabrille Zevin is a good example. Something heartwarming.)

Thanks in advance.

2007-05-11 19:30:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

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How can I catalog my personal library?

I think I might have found software, but how do I go about organizing it? What would be the best way to organize it? It is almost all Christian non-fiction, and there are approximately 2000 books. I would like:

1. Program Recommendations
2. Suggestions for best way to organize
3. Any other information that might help

Thanks!

2007-05-11 17:20:25 · 7 answers · asked by Carlos Santana 2

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To Kill a Mocking Bird Game?

I am making a board game based on the book to kill a mocking bird by harper lee and i need help on some cards. They are cards like in monopoly where you can be either rewarded with money or sent to jail or something. Ex: Find a penny in the knot-hole-move ahead two spaces. They could also be miss a turns or something but no money is used in this game. Any suggestions?

2007-05-11 16:06:02 · 2 answers · asked by fashiongirl 1

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What are some good quotes from "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"?

I'd like it to be from the book, but any from the movie would be okay too. And preferably a dialogue, like between two or m ore people, but whatever.

2007-05-11 15:25:08 · 3 answers · asked by Nina 1

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If I had an idea for a Children's book? Could I SELL the idea to an author who can write?

2007-05-11 15:21:53 · 7 answers · asked by thewordofgodisjesus 5

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Anyone kno anythingg bout the book "1984" by George Orwell??

I just don't understand?! Like what is the "telescreen"?? Are people watching Winston? And what is the "Two Minute Hate"? and who is "O'Brein & Goldstein"?? If anyone can answer ANY of those questions i'd rly appreciate it! THANX!!

2007-05-11 15:04:02 · 10 answers · asked by johnny d lvr! 3

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What Book would you Recomend to me?

I like Fiction or Non Fiction.
The only books I will not read is about History, Wars, Stuff like that.

Whats the book about?

2007-05-11 14:07:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Was Robert H. Heinlein a pen name or not?

Does any one know what his name was if not a pen name?

2007-05-11 13:51:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

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writing a book?

I want to write a book (for fun not profit) and I need some ideas. I want it to be based on a woman who is too busy for love. She has all kinds of adventures(need help in this area)and spends time with her friends and family and ends up finding love at the end. Can you please help me and no smart alec remarks.

2007-05-11 13:19:06 · 6 answers · asked by Courtney V 1

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I'm just wondering how long did it take you to read Catcher In THe Rye by J.D Salinger?/?

its one of my favorite books...= )

2007-05-11 12:54:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

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How do you get a book published? And for how much?

I have this really cool childrens fiction book im writeing and I wish to get it published and on the shelves any tips?

2007-05-11 11:43:58 · 10 answers · asked by cloverrp 1

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What's your all time favorite book to read?

I want to start reading more books...does anyone have any suggestions?

2007-05-11 10:31:34 · 22 answers · asked by NT 2

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What, in your opinion, is the best love story ever to have been written?

2007-05-11 10:04:25 · 30 answers · asked by Lotcie 2

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has anyone read the book.?

supercharged infield, if so give me a summary of it.

2007-05-11 09:08:56 · 3 answers · asked by laden d 3

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What do you think of audiobooks?

2007-05-11 08:57:19 · 19 answers · asked by Stratomanssy 5

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how should i develop a reading habit ?

i am good at english some how because everybody around me read books n speak good english so i too speak really well ,i dont like reading i get bored when i read books....i am 13 years old...how should i develop a reading habit now ?the maximum i have read are the necy dew books...my freinds read big novels n stuff like dan brown books ....i never even could read a hrry potter book...though i my bro read all through net,,,...which i never read..and never dreamt of reading ..i want to read but i dont like it...can u give me some suggestions how to do so ?

2007-05-11 08:26:30 · 10 answers · asked by krazy chick ! 1

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